Title:
Valley in the slope of the Great Basin: leading from the Tejon Pass [California/Nevada]
Creator/Contributor:
Koppel, Charles (active ca. 1854), German, artist (artist)
A. Hoen & Company (active ca. 1854), lithographer (lithographer)
Date:
[not before 1854]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:0478:14--A
Format:
print on paper: lithograph, color
22.9 x 28.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Desert landscape with tall cactus, surrounded by hills. Several figures on horseback make way across valley.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Printed title (LC). Printed (UL): U.S.P.R.R. exp. & surveys, Cal[ifornia]; (UR): Geology plate XI. Printed (LL): From a sketch
by Ch[arle]s Koppel; (LR): Lith. by A.Hoen & Co., Balto. Likely from the United States Pacific Railroad Survey in California,
under the command of Lieut. R.S. Williamson, in 1853-54
Subjects:
California, Southern;
Expeditions & surveys;
Nevada;
Railroads;
West (U.S.)
Genre/Format:
Illustrations;
Landscapes;
Lithographs, color